Germany To Ban Russian, Belarusian, And Soviet Symbols During May 8–9 WWII Commemorations
2026-05-04 18:25 UTC
Replies (15)
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@TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-05 16:13
Israeli flag is fine though. Nazis were bad, modern day fascists and genocide is totally fine.
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@mech@feddit.org 2026-05-04 21:08
In case you only read the headline, Germany of course does not ban Soviet symbols during those commemorations. Berlin police has announced that they will not allow showing those symbols at 4 specific locations within Berlin during protests.
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@silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2026-05-05 19:52
I don't want to paint post 1925 USSR in a good light, but wasn't an immense number of Soviet citizens killed by the Nazis? I mean, I think it was something to the tune of 22 million last time I checked. Germany had roughly 8 million killed. To me this smells like nationalism on Germany's part and like an attempt to encroach on anti-war leftist and communists who might carry symbols of their movements at demonstrations, regardless if they're Putinists/Stalinists or state-unaffiliated.
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@theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-05 15:47
Banning the flag of the main reason the Nazis lost a very reasonable ww2 commemoration goal. /S
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@CyroSignal@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 08:56
Will they ban other symbols ?
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 18:37
Gentle reminder that 80% nazis were k!lled by the red army, no amount of suppression or history revisionism by capitalists will change or diminish the sacrifices of soviet people. Long live the red army, army of proletarian of the world! 
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@Pirasp@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 09:11
Yes, but Poland was jointly invaded. Carved up in a treaty beforehand.
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 15:29
No, none of it was "occupation", nice try tho.
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 15:58
"ruski" lol, keep coping blud. Keep denying the truth.
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@Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-05 09:50
German flag. 🔥 E: Apparently ppl took it seriously. Lol
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 15:26
US flag, British flag, basically all other allies flag
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@silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2026-05-05 19:54
It wasn't "evil", or "good". It was a rational actor engaging in inter-state competition, just like all the other states involved.
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 15:25
said by hitler
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 15:52
Your anecdotal experience doesnt define character of the state
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@silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2026-05-06 08:49
So did Germany, the UK, the US, China, Italy, France, and virtually every other larger power.